Zoo burns $1M in rhino items in 1st US bonfire of its kind

John Gibbins

Published
3:06 pm CDT, Thursday, September 8, 2016

San Diego zoo officials on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, burned items containing rhinoceros horn with an estimated black market value of $1 million in a symbolic gesture to show the United States is committed to ending illegal wildlife trafficking. (John Gibbins/U-T San Diego via AP)

San Diego zoo officials on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, burned items containing rhinoceros horn with an estimated black market value of $1 million in a symbolic gesture to show the United States is committed to

San Diego zoo officials on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, burned items containing rhinoceros horn with an estimated black market value of $1 million in a symbolic gesture to show the United States is committed to ending illegal wildlife trafficking. (John Gibbins/U-T San Diego via AP)

San Diego zoo officials on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, burned items containing rhinoceros horn with an estimated black market value of $1 million in a symbolic gesture to show the United States is committed to

San Diego zoo officials on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, burned items containing rhinoceros horn with an estimated black market value of $1 million in a symbolic gesture to show the United States is committed to ending illegal wildlife trafficking. (John Gibbins/U-T San Diego via AP)